Editorials
The latest Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, including Free Press Editorials and Times Editorials.
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Times Opinion: Tennessee is the model for Jim Crow 2.0
Jim Crow, an authoritarian system of racial apartheid, was thought to be long buried in the past. But after a yearslong effort from the U.S. Supreme Court to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a 21st-century version of state-sanctioned subjugation has emerged: Jim Crow 2.0.
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Kennedy: Goodbye, friends. It’s been a great 46 years
Long after she retired from her job as a bank teller, my mother still counted out imaginary money.
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Perspective: Trail helps Chickamauga protect our historic past, prepare for future as area grows
In a quiet corner of North Georgia, a small path traces a portion of the old Dry Valley Road, which Union soldiers used to march from Mountain Cove through Crawfish Springs — better known today as the city of Chickamauga.
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Perspective: On ‘cutie-fruity’ flavored vapes, Makary was right to object
Even at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, you likely will not find a physician without opinions about one of its most prominent alumni, Dr. Marty Makary, the former chair of gastrointestinal surgery at Hopkins who recently resigned as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Local History: Gen. Braxton Bragg’s Confederate victory was short-lived
Braxton Bragg was a West Point-trained U.S. Army officer who became one of the Confederacy's most prominent — and most criticized — generals in the Western Theater, commanding what became the Army of Tennessee from mid-1862 to late 1863.
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Readers respond: Chattanooga needs more homeless beds; Keep Walden’s character and more
The purchase of the Totten property in Walden was passed by our town board, 2-1. Shortly after, a petition was circulated, with many points untrue, to stop it.
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Letters to the editors: Court ruling reverses racial emphasis; mid-campaign changes are unfair
There are no restrictions to Black voters' rights in this country as alleged by the NAACP, congressional Black Caucus and local Black leaders.
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Chattanooga homelessness, Hawk Hill’s fate, Moon River mistake and more Rants
Fly your USA flag! Preferably on the left as you enter your front door or on right side as you exit, per U.S. etiquette.
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Times Opinion: TVA lied and people died — Has it learned anything since the Kingston disaster?
There is no such thing as beautiful, clean coal.
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Good Deed: White Oak Bicycle Cooperative’s truck-turned-mobile bike shop provides repairs
A new (used) truck is helping a local bicycle nonprofit provide repairs for cyclists across the community.
